Magna Carta Project Glossary

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See below for long answers for Gateway Guardians, Surety Specialists, and Trail Tenders.

Term	Short Answer	Project Page(s)
Affiliate Member	helps monitor profiles on the project’s watchlist, but is not a badged member	Category:Magna Carta Project Affiliates, Space:Magna Carta Stickers
Badge (noun)	can refer to the Project Member Badge (on the profile of a Badged Member) or the {{Magna Carta}} Project Box (on the profile of a Magna Carta-Badged Profile)	Badge List, Space:Magna Carta: Template Trail
Badge (verb)	the project co-leaders can "badge a member" (award the Project Member Badge to an active WikiTree member with the pre-1700 badge) and project members can "badge a profile" (add the {{Magna Carta}} badge to a profile after it has been reviewed/approved as part of a trail)	Badge List, Space:Magna Carta: Template Trail
Badged Member	actively works toward achieving the project’s goals and helps monitor profiles on the project’s watchlist	Badge List
Badged Profile	a profile on a project-reviewed/approved trail between a Gateway Ancestor and a Surety Baron should have the {{Magna Carta}} badge, which adds them to the Magna Carta category	Space:Magna Carta: Template Trail, Base Camp, Category:Magna Carta
Badged Trail	a project-reviewed/approved trail between a Gateway Ancestor and a Surety Baron	Space:Magna Carta: Template Trail, Base Camp
Checklist	used by project members to develop and review profiles in a trail	Magna Carta Project Checklist
Descendant Categories	used by the project to categorize profiles badged by the project (by Surety Baron)	Index of Surety Barons to Gateway Ancestors
Descendant Stickers	may be used by anyone to indicate a Magna Carta connection; although not monitored by the project, suggested use is to a gateway on post-1700 profiles and to no more than one or two barons (or say "many") on pre-1600/1700 profiles - see Help:Stickers for guidelines for using stickers & Template:Descendant for details about the sticker; for project-suggested usage with copy/paste examples, see ->	Space:Magna Carta Stickers
gateway ancestor (lowercase)	any ancestor, usually the immigrant ancestor, who is descended from royalty or other notable (such as a surety baron)	n/a
Gateway Ancestor	as used by the project, one of the 200+ immigrant ancestors listed by Richardson in his Magna Carta Ancestry	Category:Gateway Ancestors
Questionable Gateway Ancestor	as used by the project, an immigrant ancestor not listed by Richardson in his Magna Carta Ancestry	Category:Questionable Gateway Ancestors previously a subproject, but no longer active
Gateway Guardian	a project member who is watching over a particular Gateway Ancestor	Space:Trail Tracks (see long answer, below)
Illustrious Men	Advisors to King John	Category:Illustrious Men
Magna Carta Google Group for Profile Alerts	The Magna Carta Google Group that affiliates and badged members join to help oversee the project's Watchlist profiles	Profile Alerts Google Group
Magna Carta Google Group for Project Discussion	A Magna Carta Google Group for badged members (intended for developmental discussions prior to discussion in profile alerts or in G2G)	not yet in use
Magna Carta Project Box	one of seven variations of the project box that is displayed on a profile managed by the project	Magna Carta: Template Trail
Magna Carta Project Maintenance Categories	categories for profiles that need the attention of the project	Category:Magna Carta Project Maintenance Categories
Magna Carta Project Sticker	the template added to project-monitored profiles; it can be used to add Magna Carta Project maintenance categories ("needs=")	Template:Magna Carta Project, Category:Magna Carta Project Maintenance Categories, Space:Magna Carta Stickers
Project Account	the WikiTree profile that is added as profile manager (for project-managed profiles) and to the trusted list (for project-monitored accounts); e-mails to this profile are sent to the members of the Profile Alerts Google Group	WikiTree-36, Profile Alerts Google Group
Project Accounts	see Help:Project Accounts, Category:Project Accounts, and Wikitree surname page	WikiTree-36
Project Boxes	a template that indicates a profile is managed by that project; it must be displayed for a project to be a manager of the account (the project is otherwise restricted to being on the trusted list only), and any profile that displays a project box must have the corresponding project as a manager	Space:Magna Carta: Template Trail
Project-Managed Profiles	see Help:Project-Managed_Profiles (the project is a manager)	profiles with "M" in the project's Watchlist
Project-Monitored Profiles	term used by the Magna Carta project to indicate a profile that it monitors (WikiTree-36 is on the profile's trusted list); the {{Magna Carta Project}} sticker should be displayed on these profiles in a "Magna Carta trail" or "Magna Carta connection" section that explains why the project is monitoring the profile	Template:Magna Carta Project, Maintenance Categories, Needs Review and Approval (gives a copy/paste example of a "Magna Carta trail" section)
Project-Protected Profiles	a profile that needs to be "locked" (preventing changes to the WikiTree ID, base on the profile's "Last Name at Birth" field, and restricting who can change the profiles attached as parents); a profile that is locked (or "PPP") must have the project box of the project protecting the profile, and the corresponding project account as a manager (see Help:Project Protection	profiles with "PPP" in the project's Watchlist
Run the Trail	follow badged profiles up from the badged Gateway Ancestor, checking for profile quality on the way up and for Descendant Categories coming back down	Space:Magna Carta Project Trails
Surety Baron	25 barons who signed the Magna Carta as surety for King John, 17 of whom had descendants past the 4th generation	Category:Surety Barons
Surety Specialist	a project member (or a EuroAristo project member) who is watching over a particular Surety Baron or Illustrious Man	Space:Trail Tracks (see long answer, below)
Trail Tender	a project member who watches over a particular trail and the profiles in it	Space:Trail Tracks (see long answer, below)
Watchlist	a list of profiles that the project watches over, which include project-managed profiles (the project account is a profile manager) and project-monitored profiles (the project account is on the trusted list)	WikiTree-36's Watchlist

Long answers for Gateway Guardians, Surety Specialists, and Trail Tenders - a new concept intended to help the project better maintain badged profiles. Tables on Space:Trail Tracks show project members who have volunteered to serve in these roles.

Gateway Guardian: Ensures the continued quality of the Gateway Ancestor's profile after it has been badged as part of a project-approved trail (if not yet in a badged trail, works toward the goal of a completed, project-reviewed/approved trail for that Gateway Ancestor). Often the Guardian also developed or reviewed the trail from the Gateway to a Surety Baron and is also the Trail Tender for it. The Gateway Guardian should periodically "run the trail" to any/all barons and ensure it is in the appropriate Descendant categories (as trails are completed for other Gateway Ancestors, a by-product is additional badged trails for already-badged Gateways)

Surety Specialist: Ensures the continued quality of the Surety Baron's profile and monitors the profiles attached to the baron also. The Surety Specialist should also periodically review the surety’s Descendant Category, checking Base Camp for underway or completed/reviewed trails and listing Gateways on the category page as approriate. More involved Surety Specialists may also wish to run the trails for Gateways listed and ensure that profiles in the category are all in a badged trail. Surety Specialists who are point of contact for one of the Illustrious Men ensure the quality of the profile and support for attached profiles, but trails from these men are outside the scope of the project.

Trail Tender: Ensures the quality of profiles along the trail between the anchors of the trail (the Gateway and the Baron). A Trail Tender may choose to tend all trails from a particular Gateway Ancestor, or only a specific trail to a specific Surety Baron. Project members can sign up to tend an already badged trail or develop the trail they want to tend.